Drechsler, Wolfgang;
Chafik, Salah;
(2022)
Islamic Public Administration in Sunlight and Shadow: Theory and Practice.
The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy
, 15
(2)
pp. 52-70.
10.2478/nispa-2022-0013.
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Abstract
The combination of theoretical principles and centuries-old, yet still functional, practices and institutions that together form the Islamic paradigm of public administration (PA) have customarily been absent from both academic literature and PA reform policies, not least in the NISPAcee region. With, e. g., the arrival of Peter’s Administrative Traditions last year, however, Islamic PA has now been positioned within the mainstream, that is, recognized as a legitimate, contextually relevant alternative to the global-Western paradigm. Accordingly, this article aims to further delineate the Islamic PA tradition by discussing its positionality and significance within Non-Western PA, surveying its normative principles, exploring a set of contemporary case studies in Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Morocco, and concluding with a broader reflection on the importance of contextuality and heterogeneity for good PA.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Islamic Public Administration in Sunlight and Shadow: Theory and Practice |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.2478/nispa-2022-0013 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2022-0013 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 Wolfgang Drechsler et al., published by Sciendo. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | Islamic public administration, non-western public administration, vakıf, mahalla, zawāyā |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Inst for Innovation and Public Purpose |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10176393 |
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